Old Timer's Airline Quiz and Discussion.
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5. (1990) Imagine yourself flying into Las Vegas while seated in First Class aboard a four engine jet. There are only two aircraft that fit the bill- each of them operated by different airlines. Please identify each aircraft type and the airline that operates it.
Rules out any U.S.-made aircraft. Not an Airbus or probably Russian a/c. Not a VC-10 or Comet, so a probably BAe 146. ~3 U.S. airlines but have no idea how the cabins were configured. I'll start by guessing an AL (USAir / ex-PS) a/c.
Correct! By 1990 US Air was operating its BAe-146s in a 2-class configuration. First Class on the 146 was much nicer than First Class on an Embraer or Canadair. For my money, the most comfortable regional jet ever made (When operated with 2-3 seating in back...) I was lucky to have flown a lot of them from Ansett NZ to Air Botnia to Aspen to...
Rules out any U.S.-made aircraft. Not an Airbus or probably Russian a/c. Not a VC-10 or Comet, so a probably BAe 146. ~3 U.S. airlines but have no idea how the cabins were configured. I'll start by guessing an AL (USAir / ex-PS) a/c.
Correct! By 1990 US Air was operating its BAe-146s in a 2-class configuration. First Class on the 146 was much nicer than First Class on an Embraer or Canadair. For my money, the most comfortable regional jet ever made (When operated with 2-3 seating in back...) I was lucky to have flown a lot of them from Ansett NZ to Air Botnia to Aspen to...
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Please limit your response to no more than two questions per day so that all may participate. And as always, we are looking for complete answers here. Aircraft types must be specific including variant, i.e. 727 NO, 727-200 YES Thanks!
9. (1985) You’ve found a great opportunity to fly from Seattle to Las Vegas aboard a pair of baby DC-9s – the -14 models – each of which is operated by a different airline. You’ll have an hour and fifteen minutes at the connection point, well within minimum guidelines. Identify each airline as well as the connection point.
Sunworld is one of the airlines. Horizon and Republic and Continental are not
10. (1990) You’re in Jacksonville, FL and need to get up to Montreal, Quebec to catch your seven day cruise up the St. Laurence Seaway and out around the Maritimes. On the downside, you’ll probably have to connect at one of those big crowded airports in the New York City area. But NO! As luck would have it there’s a single one-stop direct flight departing JAX each afternoon, arriving at Montreal Dorval in the early evening. Perfect! Book it! Forward cabin, of course. Airline, enroute stop and aircraft type please.
12. (2003) What a night! That little white ball was practically on fire as you burned up the roulette tables at Mandalay Bay to the tune of over $38000.00! So what the heck – why not fly back home to Burbank in First Class? As things turned out, there’s just one flight a day that even offers First Class between Las Vegas and Burbank and you’ve called just in time to purchase the last available seat. Book it, Danno! Identify the airline and aircraft you’ll be flying upon.
15. (1988) Those were the days when National Airlines used to offer wonderful Sun King Service aboard its stylish DC-8 fanjets between Tampa and Los Angeles. Alas, National is long gone and these days the TPA-LAX market is served by just a single almost daily nonstop. Identify the airline and the aircraft it operates on this route.
16. (1970) Fresh off delivery of a catamaran from St. Thomas to Ocho Rios, you now need to fly back to Miami. From the closest major airport, you see there are two airlines offering nonstop flights to Miami. Identify the airport, the two airlines and the aircraft type each operates up to Miami.
17. (1985) Per schedules available in the 1985 North American OAG I used to reference these questions, only two airlines still offered service to Toronto’s Lester Pearson International Airport with McDonnell-Douglas DC-8s – one with a standard DC-8 and the other with a stretch DC-8. Identify each airline, the DC-8 variant it served YYZ with and where each flight came into Toronto from.
AeroMexico was one of them...
18. (1989) Per schedulesin the 1989 North American OAG I used to reference this question, Honolulu is well served by DC-10s and L-1011s. Each aircraft type is operated by five different airlines. Identify the five airlines operating each aircraft type.
See Post 19818
30. (1990) As a lifelong resident of south Florida, you’ve often had occasion to visit Mexico’s Caribbean coast via Merida and Cancun. This time however, you’re headed for the other side of Mexico, to Guadalajara in the western state of Jalisco. And this won’t be a vacation trip either. No – you’re looking to invest in a new boutique tequila operation being fronted by your friend Guillermo Paz, a well-known star of Mexican stage and cinema. Guillermo knows his agave and you’re looking forward to learning more about the operation. Although you were expecting to make at least one connection, you’re surprised to discover a single daily one stop direct flight. Ay yi yi! Vamanos!! Identificar la aerolínea, la parada en ruta y el tipo de avión.
31. (1990) You’ve traveled overland from Guadalajara to Mexico City aboard El Tapatio, quite probably the finest streamliner in all of Mexico. Most amazingly, your First Class roomette cost you just $23 USD (Your quiz-meister rode this very same train in 1990) From Mexico City you need to head up north to Seattle, WA. Two airlines offer direct flights, but only one offers a First Class cabin. That’s the one you want. The flight makes one stop en route and you’ll be served breakfast and lunch along the way. Identify the airline, enroute stop and aircraft type.
33 . (2003) You had a helluva time getting from New York down to Los Cabos, what with a broken down airplane and a missed connection, but your travel travails were well worth it given the wonderful week of sun and fun that you’ve enjoyed. And, as if things couldn’t get any better, you’ve been upgraded to First Class on your two-stop direct flight back to JFK. Identify the airline and aircraft you’ll return home on as well as the two enroute stops.
36. (1990) As the project manager overseeing the construction of a new shopping center on Aruba, you travel every two weeks between your home in Coral Gables and the island nation. It used to be only one or two airlines offered flights between Aruba and Miami but these days five airlines offer nonstop flights. And get this! Although two airlines operate the same type of jet, the other three each operate jets different from one another. We’re talking two, three and four engine transports here. Your challenge – should you decide to accept it – is to identify each airline on the AUA-MIA route and identify the aircraft type it operates. Ready? Go!
37. (1998) You’re seated aboard the only flight between New York and Las Vegas that markets a Business Class or “C” class seat. Well what the heck – it’s cheaper than everyone else’s First Class so you’ve decided to splurge! Identify the airline and aircraft you’re flying aboard.
9. (1985) You’ve found a great opportunity to fly from Seattle to Las Vegas aboard a pair of baby DC-9s – the -14 models – each of which is operated by a different airline. You’ll have an hour and fifteen minutes at the connection point, well within minimum guidelines. Identify each airline as well as the connection point.
Sunworld is one of the airlines. Horizon and Republic and Continental are not
10. (1990) You’re in Jacksonville, FL and need to get up to Montreal, Quebec to catch your seven day cruise up the St. Laurence Seaway and out around the Maritimes. On the downside, you’ll probably have to connect at one of those big crowded airports in the New York City area. But NO! As luck would have it there’s a single one-stop direct flight departing JAX each afternoon, arriving at Montreal Dorval in the early evening. Perfect! Book it! Forward cabin, of course. Airline, enroute stop and aircraft type please.
12. (2003) What a night! That little white ball was practically on fire as you burned up the roulette tables at Mandalay Bay to the tune of over $38000.00! So what the heck – why not fly back home to Burbank in First Class? As things turned out, there’s just one flight a day that even offers First Class between Las Vegas and Burbank and you’ve called just in time to purchase the last available seat. Book it, Danno! Identify the airline and aircraft you’ll be flying upon.
15. (1988) Those were the days when National Airlines used to offer wonderful Sun King Service aboard its stylish DC-8 fanjets between Tampa and Los Angeles. Alas, National is long gone and these days the TPA-LAX market is served by just a single almost daily nonstop. Identify the airline and the aircraft it operates on this route.
16. (1970) Fresh off delivery of a catamaran from St. Thomas to Ocho Rios, you now need to fly back to Miami. From the closest major airport, you see there are two airlines offering nonstop flights to Miami. Identify the airport, the two airlines and the aircraft type each operates up to Miami.
17. (1985) Per schedules available in the 1985 North American OAG I used to reference these questions, only two airlines still offered service to Toronto’s Lester Pearson International Airport with McDonnell-Douglas DC-8s – one with a standard DC-8 and the other with a stretch DC-8. Identify each airline, the DC-8 variant it served YYZ with and where each flight came into Toronto from.
AeroMexico was one of them...
18. (1989) Per schedulesin the 1989 North American OAG I used to reference this question, Honolulu is well served by DC-10s and L-1011s. Each aircraft type is operated by five different airlines. Identify the five airlines operating each aircraft type.
See Post 19818
30. (1990) As a lifelong resident of south Florida, you’ve often had occasion to visit Mexico’s Caribbean coast via Merida and Cancun. This time however, you’re headed for the other side of Mexico, to Guadalajara in the western state of Jalisco. And this won’t be a vacation trip either. No – you’re looking to invest in a new boutique tequila operation being fronted by your friend Guillermo Paz, a well-known star of Mexican stage and cinema. Guillermo knows his agave and you’re looking forward to learning more about the operation. Although you were expecting to make at least one connection, you’re surprised to discover a single daily one stop direct flight. Ay yi yi! Vamanos!! Identificar la aerolínea, la parada en ruta y el tipo de avión.
31. (1990) You’ve traveled overland from Guadalajara to Mexico City aboard El Tapatio, quite probably the finest streamliner in all of Mexico. Most amazingly, your First Class roomette cost you just $23 USD (Your quiz-meister rode this very same train in 1990) From Mexico City you need to head up north to Seattle, WA. Two airlines offer direct flights, but only one offers a First Class cabin. That’s the one you want. The flight makes one stop en route and you’ll be served breakfast and lunch along the way. Identify the airline, enroute stop and aircraft type.
33 . (2003) You had a helluva time getting from New York down to Los Cabos, what with a broken down airplane and a missed connection, but your travel travails were well worth it given the wonderful week of sun and fun that you’ve enjoyed. And, as if things couldn’t get any better, you’ve been upgraded to First Class on your two-stop direct flight back to JFK. Identify the airline and aircraft you’ll return home on as well as the two enroute stops.
36. (1990) As the project manager overseeing the construction of a new shopping center on Aruba, you travel every two weeks between your home in Coral Gables and the island nation. It used to be only one or two airlines offered flights between Aruba and Miami but these days five airlines offer nonstop flights. And get this! Although two airlines operate the same type of jet, the other three each operate jets different from one another. We’re talking two, three and four engine transports here. Your challenge – should you decide to accept it – is to identify each airline on the AUA-MIA route and identify the aircraft type it operates. Ready? Go!
37. (1998) You’re seated aboard the only flight between New York and Las Vegas that markets a Business Class or “C” class seat. Well what the heck – it’s cheaper than everyone else’s First Class so you’ve decided to splurge! Identify the airline and aircraft you’re flying aboard.
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this is still alive also
BONUS SYR-MIA QUESTION
On a cold and windy Saturday morning in early December 1972, the equipment managers of the Cornell men's soccer team helped the university grounds crew scrape almost four inches of overnight snow off the frozen PolyTurf playing surface; about two hours later, the Big Red had defeated Harvard by a 2-0 score to secure a spot in the NCAA semi-finals.
Allegheny of course had only limited service out of ITH (something like 2x Convair 580 to ELM/DCA, 1x CV5 to ELM/PHL, 3x CV5 and 1x BAC 1-11 to UCA/LGA, and 1x BAC to ELM/PIT), and the traveling party numbered close to 30 -- maybe 23 players, the head coach and two assistants, the trainer, the two equipment managers, and a reporter/photographer from the campus paper. As a result, we flew out of SYR: late morning departure, interline connection of approximately 2 hours, and arrival around 5pm. What were the two airlines, the two jet types, and the connecting airport?
BONUS SYR-MIA QUESTION
On a cold and windy Saturday morning in early December 1972, the equipment managers of the Cornell men's soccer team helped the university grounds crew scrape almost four inches of overnight snow off the frozen PolyTurf playing surface; about two hours later, the Big Red had defeated Harvard by a 2-0 score to secure a spot in the NCAA semi-finals.
Allegheny of course had only limited service out of ITH (something like 2x Convair 580 to ELM/DCA, 1x CV5 to ELM/PHL, 3x CV5 and 1x BAC 1-11 to UCA/LGA, and 1x BAC to ELM/PIT), and the traveling party numbered close to 30 -- maybe 23 players, the head coach and two assistants, the trainer, the two equipment managers, and a reporter/photographer from the campus paper. As a result, we flew out of SYR: late morning departure, interline connection of approximately 2 hours, and arrival around 5pm. What were the two airlines, the two jet types, and the connecting airport?
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a very reasonable guess ...
AA incorrect
BAC One-Eleven correct
LGA incorrect
EA incorrect
72S incorrect
by default (no other One-Eleven operators at SYR), the originating airline was Allegheny
AA incorrect
BAC One-Eleven correct
LGA incorrect
EA incorrect
72S incorrect
by default (no other One-Eleven operators at SYR), the originating airline was Allegheny
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10. (1990) You’re in Jacksonville, FL and need to get up to Montreal, Quebec to catch your seven day cruise up the St. Laurence Seaway and out around the Maritimes. On the downside, you’ll probably have to connect at one of those big crowded airports in the New York City area. But NO! As luck would have it there’s a single one-stop direct flight departing JAX each afternoon, arriving at Montreal Dorval in the early evening. Perfect! Book it! Forward cabin, of course. Airline, enroute stop and aircraft type please.
36. (1990) As the project manager overseeing the construction of a new shopping center on Aruba, you travel every two weeks between your home in Coral Gables and the island nation. It used to be only one or two airlines offered flights between Aruba and Miami but these days five airlines offer nonstop flights. And get this! Although two airlines operate the same type of jet, the other three each operate jets different from one another. We’re talking two, three and four engine transports here. Your challenge – should you decide to accept it – is to identify each airline on the AUA-MIA route and identify the aircraft type it operates.
- Air Aruba - 737-300
- ALM - MD-80
- American - 727-200
- BWIA - MD-80
- VIASA - DC-8-60
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15. (1988) Those were the days when National Airlines used to offer wonderful Sun King Service aboard its stylish DC-8 fanjets between Tampa and Los Angeles. Alas, National is long gone and these days the TPA-LAX market is served by just a single almost daily nonstop. Identify the airline and the aircraft it operates on this route.
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The original hunch was that, being booked by a straightforward travel organiser of the era, rather than us lot, it's mainstream airlines, the principal (only ?) operator to New York, and that Eastern probably had the travel agents of the area sewn up for trips to Florida.
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10. (1990) You’re in Jacksonville, FL and need to get up to Montreal, Quebec to catch your seven day cruise up the St. Laurence Seaway and out around the Maritimes. On the downside, you’ll probably have to connect at one of those big crowded airports in the New York City area. But NO! As luck would have it there’s a single one-stop direct flight departing JAX each afternoon, arriving at Montreal Dorval in the early evening. Perfect! Book it! Forward cabin, of course. Airline, enroute stop and aircraft type please.
Let’s start the guessing with a Delta 767-232 stopping at Logan International Airport in Boston/BOS
An excellent guess considering Delta's 1972 acquisition of Northeast. However, it was not Delta and it was not a 767-232. Additionally, the flight did not stop in Boston.
36. (1990) As the project manager overseeing the construction of a new shopping center on Aruba, you travel every two weeks between your home in Coral Gables and the island nation. It used to be only one or two airlines offered flights between Aruba and Miami but these days five airlines offer nonstop flights. And get this! Although two airlines operate the same type of jet, the other three each operate jets different from one another. We’re talking two, three and four engine transports here. Your challenge – should you decide to accept it – is to identify each airline on the AUA-MIA route and identify the aircraft type it operates.
36- first thoughts:
Let’s start the guessing with a Delta 767-232 stopping at Logan International Airport in Boston/BOS
An excellent guess considering Delta's 1972 acquisition of Northeast. However, it was not Delta and it was not a 767-232. Additionally, the flight did not stop in Boston.
36. (1990) As the project manager overseeing the construction of a new shopping center on Aruba, you travel every two weeks between your home in Coral Gables and the island nation. It used to be only one or two airlines offered flights between Aruba and Miami but these days five airlines offer nonstop flights. And get this! Although two airlines operate the same type of jet, the other three each operate jets different from one another. We’re talking two, three and four engine transports here. Your challenge – should you decide to accept it – is to identify each airline on the AUA-MIA route and identify the aircraft type it operates.
36- first thoughts:
- Air Aruba - 737-300 Air Aruba Correct757-200 Incorrect
- ALM - MD-80 Correct!
- American - 727-200 Incorrect
- BWIA - MD-80 Correct!
- VIASA - DC-8-60 Incorrect
- BWIA - MD-80 Correct!
- American - 727-200 Incorrect
- ALM - MD-80 Correct!
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15. (1988) Those were the days when National Airlines used to offer wonderful Sun King Service aboard its stylish DC-8 fanjets between Tampa and Los Angeles. Alas, National is long gone and these days the TPA-LAX market is served by just a single almost daily nonstop. Identify the airline and the aircraft it operates on this route.
I seem to recall that USAir introduced Tampa - Los Angeles nonstop service back in the late 1980's. If so, the equipment may have been a B737-300.
Alas, it was not US Air, but IT WAS a 737-300. Please, tap in!
I seem to recall that USAir introduced Tampa - Los Angeles nonstop service back in the late 1980's. If so, the equipment may have been a B737-300.
Alas, it was not US Air, but IT WAS a 737-300. Please, tap in!
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15. (1988) Those were the days when National Airlines used to offer wonderful Sun King Service aboard its stylish DC-8 fanjets between Tampa and Los Angeles. Alas, National is long gone and these days the TPA-LAX market is served by just a single almost daily nonstop. Identify the airline and the aircraft it operates on this route.
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OK, what about an Allegheny One-Eleven to ... Boston, and a Delta DC9-30 on to Miami.
The original hunch was that, being booked by a straightforward travel organiser of the era, rather than us lot, it's mainstream airlines, the principal (only ?) operator to New York, and that Eastern probably had the travel agents of the area sewn up for trips to Florida.
The original hunch was that, being booked by a straightforward travel organiser of the era, rather than us lot, it's mainstream airlines, the principal (only ?) operator to New York, and that Eastern probably had the travel agents of the area sewn up for trips to Florida.
BOS incorrect
DL incorrect
D9S incorrect